Deputy DA John McKinney joins the Special Report to discuss his sudden demotion from Major Crimes division.
"It's a feeble attempt at trying to take me out of the public view," Deputy DA John McKinney said in an interview with City News Service. "The only reasonable explanation is that this is retaliation."
However, in a statement, Tiffiny Blacknell, the district attorney's special adviser, said that the office "routinely conducts personnel transfers" and that "no employees were demoted." "All of our lawyers should have the opportunity to enter special units to further develop and enhance their skill set. ... There are plenty of challenging cases that are not handled by the MCD . All victims deserve to have a highly skilled prosecutor to prosecute the person who caused them harm, not just the ones that make the evening news."
McKinney has also recently prosecuted the cases of Hector Veloz, who was found guilty in May of murdering his estranged wife and dumping her badly burned body at a homeless encampment in Granada Hills; Artyom Gasparyan, an ex-con sentenced in January to life without the possibility of parole for taking part in a violent crime spree that included a motorist being fatally shot in Panorama City and a wrong-way freeway crash in which a woman and her three children were injured in Sun Valley; and...
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